πολλὰ ἔχω περὶ ὑμῶν λαλεῖν καὶ κρίνειν (John 8:26)

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Title:  I Have Much to Say and to Judge About You

The text is, “πολλὰ ἔχω περὶ ὑμῶν λαλεῖν καὶ κρίνειν, ἀλλ’ ὁ πέμψας με ἀληθής ἐστιν, κἀγὼ ἃ ἤκουσα παρ’ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα λαλῶ εἰς τὸν κόσμον”.

“πολλὰ”:  neuter, plural, accusative adjective meaning “much”.

“ἔχω”:  first person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “I have”.

“περὶ”:  preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “about”.

“ὑμῶν”:  second person, personal, plural, genitive pronoun meaning “you”.

“λαλεῖν”:  present, active, infinitive verb meaning “to say”.

“καὶ”:  coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.

“κρίνειν”:  present, active, infinitive verb meaning “to judge”.

“ἀλλ’”:  coordinating adversative conjunction meaning “but”.

“ὁ”:  masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.

“πέμψας”:  aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “one having sent”.

“με”:  first person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “me”.

“ἀληθής”:  masculine, singular, nominative adjective meaning “true”.

“ἐστιν”:  third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.

“κἀγὼ”:  crasis of “καὶ” (coordinating conjunction)  and “‘έγω” (first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun), meaning “and I”.

“ἃ”:  neuter, plural, accusative, definite, relative pronoun meaning “what”.

“ἤκουσα”:  first person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “heard”.

“παρ’”:  preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “from”.

“αὐτοῦ”:  third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “him”.

“ταῦτα”:  neuter, plural, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “what”.

“λαλῶ”:  first person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “I am saying”.

“εἰς”:  preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “to”.

“τὸν”:  masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.

“κόσμον”:  masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “world”.

The meaning of this verse is,

I have much to say and to judge about you, but the one having sent me is true, and what I heard from him, I am saying to the world.”

πολλὰ ἔχω περὶ ὑμῶν λαλεῖν καὶ κρίνειν (John 8:26) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.